LogFAQs > #892170623

Like, look: I get it. It's easy to dunk on the kid if he was racist. But here's the thing. He's, what, 11-13? Do you know any smart 11-13 year olds? Very few people that age are smart because most of them don't have worldly experience in any meaningful context.

They're generally confined to a number of insulated and small environments, most notably their family/group of friends, who have a massive amount of influence. If you grow up without the inclination for better research and assurance from the people you've been conditioned to trust, you are going to be molded by the people who surround you.

Which is why it's silly to mock this kid. He is not a college educated 20something who has the ability and fortitude to research, yet refuses, and continues to carry racist belief and bully people. Bullying him will push him closer to the people he's trusted for this long, meaning he's even more likely to be molded by his parent's racist beliefs.

He hasn't had time to mature at all. He doesn't have a Machiavellian grasp of politics. He's not a college educated and experienced Republican politician on the floor of the Senate subtly winking to a white supremacist base in Mississippi, he's either just or not quite a teenager who likely has no solid grasp on the complex social studies in America, who's education is likely diluted by the racist shit his relatives surround him with.
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